Meanwhile, the community is divided between accusations and defenses. It is suspected that the school did not take adequate measures to protect the young man.
After the funeral of Leonardo Calcina, the 15-year-old from Senigallia who committed suicide using his father's service pistol, probably due to episodes of harassment, the community is divided between accusations and defenses. In the meantime, the Ancona juvenile prosecutor's office has opened an investigation. Three young people, designated by the boy's parents as allegedly responsible for cases of harassment, are at the center of the investigation, while at present there is no evidence to directly link the school attended by the 15-year-old at the reported crime. actions. Meanwhile, inspectors from the Ministry of Education and Merit, sent by Giuseppe Valditara, are trying to understand whether bullying phenomena really occurred in the school environment and contributed to the young man's tragic gesture.
The family's lawyer wants to meet the minister
Furthermore, Leonardo's family lawyer, Pia Perricci, announced her intention to request a meeting with Minister Giuseppe Valditara to discuss testimonies of other cases of bullying that occurred in the school attended by the fifteen-year-old years. Aspects that the lawyer has already presented to the carabinieri, including that of a mother whose son had suffered thefts at school, without the school authorities taking adequate measures.
Tensions in the city
Although the Prosecutor's Office, as things stand, has not yet identified any crimes against the institute, serious accusations have been brought in recent days against the school and teachers. Leonardo's family has denounced alleged indifference from educational establishments, saying teachers ignored obvious signs of the boy's suffering. “It was impossible not to see him,” the family says, reiterating that the school did not do enough to protect the boy. The climate in the city is tense, with some citizens aligned against the school and Leonardo's classmates, accused of silence.
“Reflection on the difficulties of young people”
At the same time, Leonardo's family is not immune to criticism either. Some wonder how it is possible that parents did not recognize their child's signs of distress before the situation escalated. Faced with this picture, the former guarantor of minors' rights in the Marches, Andrea Nobili, called for calm. “This is not the right way to deal with tragedies which have much deeper roots and which force us to think seriously about the problems of youth,” he declared in an attempt to bring the debate back to a more constructive.